Sunset drinks in Bali were for many years synonymous with Ku De Ta, the Seminyak bar-restaurant that has been a favorite of the international party crowd since its opening a decade ago. That’s changing, however, with the surging cachet of the six-month-old Potato Head Beach Club, tel: 737 979, an offshoot of the trendy Jakarta bar-bistro.
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Vladimir Putin: When Family is Virtually a State Secret
For almost all major politicians, life is never private.
Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat
The desire to eat meat has posed an ethical question ever since humans achieved reliable crop production: Do we really need to kill animals to live?
Finally, Truly Smart Cars Arrive for the Digital Age
We’ve lived in the age of Internet-enabled information and entertainment for more than a decade and a half now. But you sure can’t tell that from the state of car electronics: Even now, the devices built into many dashboards remind me as much of the push-button cassette deck on my first car — an extremely used 1982 Jetta — as they do an iPhone or any other 21st-century gizmo.
After Mladic’s Arrest, the E.U. Whispers Sweet Nothings to Serbia
In the years following the Cold War and the hemorrhaging of Yugoslavia, Serbia earned the dubious distinction as Europe’s pariah state, widely viewed as a brutal aggressor in the Balkan wars.
Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds
One day when he was 17, Marlon Brando took a bottle of hair tonic to school. When nobody was looking, he dribbled a thin stream of the stuff down a corridor, into an empty study room, and up the front wall
India’s Black Market Organ Scandal
Shocked but not surprised.
School Bullying Prevention: Teach Empathy at Young Age
Since the Jan.
Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It On the Grass
In this century, every decade has had its city. The fin de sicle belonged to the dreamlike round of Vienna, capital of the inbred Habsburgs and the waltz
Israel’s Electric Car Network: Can It Change the World?
Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, the most sophisticated electric-car enterprise in the world, projects the ebullient confidence of a man facing a giant wave of money.